The 2025 budget was published in the Official State Gazette, where million-dollar cuts are observed in important sectors such as health, education, crime prevention, support programs for women and the environment; and in contrast, the resources that will be spent on trips abroad, parties, fairs, and celebrations increases.
In the morning edition of the Official State Gazette on December 31, decree 38/2024 was issued, by which the budget for the fiscal year of this year was issued, where Volume I indicates that more than 230 million are allocated to transfers, per diems, trips and tickets in the country and abroad; while reductions were applied in fundamental areas.
Yucatán will spend more on fairs and trips but takes millions from key sectors: which ones, how much
In this regard, PAN deputy Álvaro Cetina Puerto indicated that this budget “abandons the true well-being of Yucatecans: health, education and security. These are irreducible issues, priorities that no government should neglect. And yet, here are the cuts that Morena has decided on.”
The legislators of the PAN assure in a statement that there are budgets that must be irreducible, such as the health budget, from which the Government took money, “demonstrating its lack of love for the Yucatecans and that its discourse does not materialize in a socially responsible government.”
The State Health Secretariat was cut by 6%, so next year it will have 5,776,350,820
The Health Services of Yucatan was cut by 7% so next year it will have 5,592,353,038
Installation, repair, and maintenance of medical and laboratory equipment and instruments will suffer a 98% cut so it will only receive 140,000
In contrast, in Volume I of the so-called consolidated budget, it is indicated that $113,095,322 (more than 113 million pesos) will be allocated to the Institute for the Promotion of Fairs of Yucatan, 18 million more than the previous year; In addition, the following will be spent on:
Air tickets: 16,903,408
Ground tickets: 1,000,434
Travel expenses in the country: 38,816,915
Travel expenses abroad: 4,898,260
Other transportation and lodging services: 3,708,068
In this sense, they indicate that in 2025, 22% more will be spent on air tickets; 135% more on travel expenses abroad; 163% more on land expenses, and 30% more on travel expenses in the country.
Other cuts in the Yucatan budget in 2025
The cut in education also represents a major blow to students and workers, since the reductions to the programs in this sector will be:
Access and permanence in Basic Education will stop receiving $108,348,891 compared to 2024, that is, 59% less
Access and permanence in Upper Secondary Education will stop receiving $66,799,289 compared to 2024, that is, 15% less
Professional teacher development will stop receiving $5,482,206, that is, 23% less
In addition, the budget for the Autonomous University of Yucatan was also affected by subtracting 37,179,788.
Crime Prevention was cut by 23%, from 49,661,058 to 38,245,105, or 11,415,953 less.
Previously, the newspaper had reported that the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) will have 37 million pesos taken away in 2025, compared to 2024.
Earlier, Larisa Acosta Escalante, a deputy from the Movimiento Ciudadano party, announced that after analyzing the Yucatan budget, 15 million pesos were taken away from entrepreneurs; 21 million pesos were cut from women’s budget for the prevention and care of gender violence.
The Women’s Secretariat faces a reduction of 8 million; Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS loses 6 million; Crime Prevention is reduced by 11 million.
Athletes see a 7 million reduction in support and Youth: lose 66 million from the program for access and permanence in higher secondary education.
“Meanwhile, the LGBT community continues to receive no funding because it has never had one. This project is no exception,” he stressed.
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